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Wind blew sharply
on my bearded face
as I sought you
for a fond embrace.

An embrace
a hug or two.
Nothing short
of one with you.

Be here tomorrow,
my heart does implore,
receive my feeling,
of thee I implore.

Talk to me slowly,
with the softness I know.
Support the grieving,
let your words heal my soul.

I know you well,
I know you can,
heal my weakness,
of a lonely old man.

The sweet voice of sorrow,
rings from my head.
Spewing forth platitudes
about the dead.

Losing a loved one,
a lost sense of hope,
while you are struggling,
and trying to cope.

Reach out to others,
when your inner needs
the strength of another,
allowing life to proceed.

Wandering the path,
in wood and plain,
across green meadows,
I travel once again.

Over moss covered logs,
across creeks rushing,
over lichen covered rocks,
makes my heart sing.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

You couldn't really be caught in this blizzard while standing by a cliff on periodic comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Orbiting the comet in June of 2016, the Rosetta spacecraft's narrow angle camera did record streaks of dust and ice particles similar to snow as they drifted across the field of view close to the camera and above the comet's surface. Still, some of the bright specks in the scene are likely due to a rain of energetic charged particles or cosmic rays hitting the camera, and the dense background of stars in the direction of the constellation of the Big Dog (Canis Major). In the video, the background stars are easy to spot trailing from top to bottom. The stunning movie was constructed from 33 consecutive images taken over 25 minutes while Rosetta cruised some 13 kilometers from the comet's nucleus. In September 2016, the nucleus became the final resting place for the Rosetta spacecraft after its mission was ended with a successful controlled impact on 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

My mind is overcome with sadness. I am reposting
to see if I can jump start this old brain.

No longer will I,
see you, in my eyes.
No longer to hear
your sweet voice and sighs.

Once more, from the past

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

Near the center of this sharp cosmic portrait, at the heart of the Orion Nebula, are four hot, massive stars known as the Trapezium. Gathered within a region about 1.5 light-years in radius, they dominate the core of the dense Orion Nebula Star Cluster. Ultraviolet ionizing radiation from the Trapezium stars, mostly from the brightest star Theta-1 Orionis C powers the complex star forming region's entire visible glow. About three million years old, the Orion Nebula Cluster was even more compact in its younger years and a dynamical study indicates that runaway stellar collisions at an earlier age may have formed a black hole with more than 100 times the mass of the Sun. The presence of a black hole within the cluster could explain the observed high velocities of the Trapezium stars. The Orion Nebula's distance of some 1,500 light-years would make it one of the closest known black holes to planet Earth.

Photo by Fred Zimmer